Name:
| Alexis N Froudarakis
| Skills:
| Soloist
| Phone:
| 003810 282863
| Fax:
| 003810 282863
| Address:
| Greece
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| Born in Heraklion – Crete in 1970, Alexios took his first guitar lesson at the age of 10 from his father Nikolaos following a long family tradition in the guitar. The period 1990 – 1994, he continued and completed his studies with Evangelos Assimakopoulos at the “Philippos Nakas” Consevatory in Athens , obtaining his Guitar Soloist Diploma in 1994 with Honours. In 1997 he won an entrance scholarship to attend Post – Graduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music (London) with M. Lewin, T. Walker and J.Mills. Completing his studies in 1998 he obtained the Guitar Teacher’s Diploma ( L.R.A.M.) as well as the Recital Diploma of the Royal Academy of Music (Dip.R.A.M.) which is the Academy’s highest accolade, and the “ John Booth” Prize, awarded by the Principal of the Academy. He took masterclasses with Oscar Ghiglia, Manuel Barrueco, David Russel , David Starobin, Hubert Kappel , Gordon Crosskey and Roland Dyens. He was a prize winner in the following guitar competitions : 3rd place at the "FRANCISCO TARREGA" International Guitar Competition (Benicassim - Spain 2003) 1st Prize at the “JULIAN BREAM” International Guitar Competition (London – England 1998) 3nd Prize at the “Ruggero Chiesa-Citta di Camogli” International Guitar Competition (Camogli – Italy 1998) 3rd Prize at the “Citta di Mottola” International Guitar Competition (Mottola – Italy 1998) 2nd Prize at the “Philippos Nakas” International Guitar Competition (Athens – Greece 1997) 2nd Prize at the IV Corfu International Guitar Festival – Competition (Corfu – Greece 1997) 2nd Prize at the “Philippos Nakas” Panhellenic Guitar Competition (Athens – Greece 1994) Alexis Froudarakis performs regularly, giving recitals(“Nakas - Athens Concert Series”) and touring in Festivals throughout Greece ( Heraklion, Chania, Rethymno, Patras, Symi, Corfu , Karpathos etc.) and abroad including the 12th International Composers Festival in London (playing works of the Italian composer Franco Donatoni ) and the 1998 Bolivar Hall Guitar Festival (playing Astro Piazzolla’s Double Concerto for Guitar & Bandoneon and Strings). Other performances with orchestra include : Rodrigo’s CONCIERTO DE ARANJUEZ ( Athens Symphony Orchestra – Eleftherios Kalkanis , conductor) , Giuliani’s PRIMO CONCERTO PER CHITARRA E ARCHI OP.30 ( KAMERATA String orchestra of the ATHENS CONCERT HALL - Alexander Myrat , conductor and CUIDAD DE TORRENT Orchestra - Jose Fabra ,conductor ) and Vivaldi's CONCERTO RV93 in D major (Heraklion Municipal String Orchestra) He has also recorded for the National Greek Radio and Television. Alexis plays on a hand-made guitar built by the Australian constructor Greg Smallman. ----------– SOLO GUITAR REPERTOIRE------ : ISAAC ALBENIZ Asturias - Granada - Cadiz - Sevilla- Mallorca- Torre Bermeja- Rumores de la Caleta- AGUSTIN BARRIOS MANGORE La Cathedral- El Ultimo Canto- Sueno en la floresta- JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Chacconne- Lute Suite No 1 BWV 996- Lute Suite No 3 BWV 995- Lute Suite No 4 BWV 1006A-Sonata in A m BWV 1003 LEO BROUWER Tarantos- Elogio de la danza- El Decameron Negro ROLAND DYENS Saudade No3- Fuoco MAURO GIULIANI Grand Overture Op.61 JOHANN KASPAR MERTZ Fantaisie Hongroise Op.65 MANUEL MARIA PONCE Sonata Classica- Sonatina Meridional JOAQUIN RODRIGO En los trigales- Invacacion y Danza- Elogio de la guitarra- Tres piezas espanolas FERNANDO SOR Theme – Varie Op.9 FRANCISCO TARREGA Capricio Arabe- Recuerdos de l’ Alambra FEDERICO MORENO TORROBA Sonatina JOAQUIN TURINA Fandaguillo Op.36 -------REPERTOIRE FOR GUITAR AND ORCHESTRA------ LEO BROUWER Concerto de Toronto MAURO GIULIANI Primo Concerto per chitarra e archi Op.30 ASTOR PIAZZOLA Double Concerto for guitar & bandodeon HEITOR VILLA – LOBOS Guitar Concerto ANTONIO VIVALDI Concerto for Lute RV 93 JOAQUIN RODRIGO Fantasia para un gentilhombre - Concierto de Aranjuez
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Name:
| Michael A Fuchsmann
| Skills:
| Arranger, Composer, Player, Teacher
| Phone:
| +78632 644327
| Address:
| Russia
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| Ordinary and postgraduated study as composer, musicologist. Working in the spheres of classical music, jazz, music for theatre. From little piano pieces to symphonical compositions. Playing piano, keyboards, violin. DP in music.
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Name:
| Kiwzo A. Fumero
| Skills:
| Player (lead tumpet player)
| Phone:
| +1 (305) 610 4500
| Fax:
| +1 (786) 388 8578
| Address:
| United States
| Links:
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| trompetista cubano radicado ahora en miami, partricipo y gravo en cuba con orquestas como danny lozada y la timba cubana, azucar negra y salsa de esquina, y participando en producciones de juan carlos gonzales, tony perez entre otros
en 06/2000 se radica en la ciudad de miami y participa en numerosas gravaciones como "a pura picardia" de elio rodriguez", "zona prieta", homenaje a benny more" con la treopicana all stars, live y studio recording, asi como con la cha cha cha all stars, donde compartio atril con grandes de la musica como paquito de rivera, paquito echevarria, generoso gimenes, jose "pepe" vera, manuel varela entre otros y numerosos programas de television con figuras de la talla de thalia, tito nieves, jose feliciano, el puma. gilberto santa rosa entre muchos otros.
ha participado como lead trumpet con grandes de la musica como en el tour(2001) "abrazame muy fuerte" con juan gabriel, rey ruiz, y por dos años fue el 1er trompeta de la orquesta de la incomparable celia cruz
actualmente se encuentra de lead trumpet de la popular sonora carrousel con la cual estan preparando la gira de este año, y se prepara para el tour de cachao"el famoso bajista cubano creador del mambo" quer hara en europa en este verano.
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Name:
| Bernhard Gál
| Skills:
| Composer
| Address:
| Vienna, Austria
| Links:
|
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| Austrian composer, sound artist and musicologist. Compositions, sound installations and intermedia art projects.
Website contains information on Bernhard Gál's music, upcoming events, CD-releases, audio files and many music-related links.
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Name:
| Maureen Galea
| Skills:
| Accompanist, Player, Teacher
| Phone:
| +44 (0)7791 201148
| Address:
| Guildford, Surrey, U.K./Malta
| Links:
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| Maltese - born pianist, Maureen started studying the piano at the age of four. She passed the L.L.C.M. and L.R.S.M. with flying colours. She graduated with a B.A.(Hons.) from the University of Malta, followed by a P.G.C.E. She was awarded a scholarship by the Italian Government, and continued furthering her studies in Italy, obtaining the final Diploma from the Conservatorio of Florence.
She is presently reading for an M.Mus at the University of Surrey, under the direction of Clive Williamson. She is also studying Conducting, Criticism & Reviewing and Musicology.
This versatile and gifted pianist has a very varied repertoire, and has been widely acclaimed for her playing in Malta, Italy, Greece, England and Scotland. She enjoys accompanying and playing in chamber ensembles, and was the winner of the 2003 edition of the Croser-Hughes Chamber music Award, organised by the University of Surrey. She also placed second in two National piano competitions in Malta.
Maureen sings as an alto in various choirs, and for some years conducted her own chamber choir. She was the accompanist of several choirs in Malta and Italy, and was highly acclaimed for her sensitive and supportive pianism.
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Name:
| Daniel Gall
| Skills:
| Composer
| Phone:
| +1 (323) 871 0034
| Links:
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| Daniel Gall writes music that is often times theatrical in nature, and he is commited to the idea of incorporating elements of fantasy and color into his music, while always maintaining an expressive quality within a modern musical setting. He studied composition with Jerry Mueller in San Francisco and is a member of the Composer's Collective 5C. Daniel's music has been played by many chamber music groups throughout the bay area including The Fog City Brass, The Pacific Wind Ensemble, and The Vielle String Quartet. Daniel is currently a music student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is living in Hollywood, CA.
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Name:
| Louis Ignatius Gall
| Skills:
| Arranger, Composer, Soloist, Teacher, Writer
| Phone:
| +31 - 53 - 430 81 34
| Fax:
| +31 - 53 - 431 62 60
| Address:
| Boulevard 1945 Nr. 15, Enschede 7511NG, Netherlands
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| LOUIS IGNATIUS GALL Louis Ignatius Gall, guitarist, lutenist, composer and teacher, began his guitar studies in Holland and continued studying for several years in Spain with Andrés Segovia. Louis Ignatius Gall has performed with the Residentie Orchestra in The Hague with the conductor and composer Bruno Maderna and with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. As a soloist he has given many radio and television concerts and live performances in Europe for the AVRO, KRO, NOS, VARA, VPRO and Netherlands World Service Radio networks. He appeared at the Holland Festival, in France at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, for Radio France in Paris, in Spain, Germany, Belgium (also for radio and television) and in almost every European country. Louis Ignatius Gall has toured several times both as soloist and with the Berkshire Chamber Ensemble with great success throughout the eastern part of the USA. He also played for 4 successive days with great success in New York City at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. Whilst in the USA he gave several concerts for radio and television.
Also well-known as a composer, Mr. Gall was a prize winner of the Belgian National Radio and Television Composition Competion, and is author of a widely used series of instructional pieces, books and methods for guitar, flute, violin and other instruments. He has written new pieces and books for The Louis Ignatius Gall Guitar Masterclass Series.
Mr. Gall is currently on the faculties of the “Conservatorium Saxion Hogeschool Enschede” and on the Messiaen Academy in Holland. He gives Masterclasses at the Hochschule für Musik in Münster, the Folkwang - Hochschule Essen, and also in Heek at the Landes Musik Akademie NRW and Kleve in Germany and at the “Hogeschool Gent” (Conservatoriy) in Belgium. Mr. Gall is increasingly invited as examiner and adjudicator in Europe.
For availability contact: for Concerts and Masterclasses in the USA, Canada and East Asia (Japan etc.); Albert Kay Associates, Inc. Concert Artists Management, Jay Yoo, Presitent Tower 58 - 58th Street (Suite 31 - E), New York, NY 10019 - 2510, USA Tel.: + 212 - 593 - 1640 Fax: + 212 - 759 - 7329 E-mail: www.albertkay-jayyoo.com E - mail: albkayassc@aol.com for Concerts and Masterclasses in Holland & Denmark contact; Ivory Tower Management, Tusveld 89, 7627 NW - Bornerbroek, Holland Tel.: 00.31.74 - 38 41 718 Fax: 00.31.74 - 38 41 316 E - mail: info@ivorytower.nl Web - site: www.ivorytower.nl for Concerts and Masterclasses in other European countries contact: Elgo Production, Postbus 632, 7500 AP Enschede, Holland Tel.: 00.31.53 - 431 62 40 Fax: 00.31.53 - 431 62 60 or for availability contact: Louis Ignatius Gall Tel.: 00.31.53 - 430 81 34 E - mail: louisignatiusgall@hotmail.com
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Name:
| Gallimaufry Ensemble
| Skills:
| Ensemble
| Phone:
| +44 (0)7703 325586
| Address:
| United Kingdom
| Links:
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| The Gallimaufry Ensemble is a chamber ensemble consisting of wind quintet with piano. Please visit the website (www.gallimaufry-ensemble.com), updated regularly, for further information on performances, biographies, reviews and repertoire.
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Name:
| Ryan Garber
| Skills:
| Accompanist, Composer, Soloist, Teacher (organist/pianist/bassoonist)
| Address:
| 37760, United States
| Links:
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| J. Ryan Garber is Assistant Professor of Music at Carson-Newman College. He recieved his DM in composition from The Florida State University. Garber has received awards and recognition from ASCAP, The College Music Society, American Composers Forum, the Tennessee Music Teachers Association, and the American Music Center, among others. Garber’s music is also routinely selected for performance at national and regional conferences of various organizations and has been featured on concerts at colleges and for professional ensembles.
I encourage performers to contact me to discuss collaborative projects and to ask for a copy of my music.
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Name:
| Ricardo Garcia
| Skills:
| Arranger, Composer, Player, Teacher (Flamenco guitarist and classical spanish)
| Phone:
| +44 (0)131 226 4295
| Address:
| 15 Gloucester Place, Edinburgh EH3 6EE, United Kingdom
| Links:
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| Of Andalucian origin, Ricardo's family left for France during the Franco years. Flamenco was a way of holding on to roots and the whole family was brought up within the tradition: Ricardo learning guitar from his uncle Antonio from a very young age and later performing with his aunt, Ana Maria, brothers and cousins. His mother, Maria del Carmen is an excellent singer and he accompanied her from an early age. His father, Dionisio, encouraged him and bullied him alternately as a child, making sure he practised regularly and taking the whole family back to his village near Sevilla every summer in order to experience first hand the music and soul of the region. Ricardo’s first public performance was at the age of nine and he has played regularly in public ever since. He continued to perform both solo and with his aunt and uncle in numerous concerts throughout France and in 1988 he was chosen to represent France culturally on a tour around Uruguay and Argentina, sponsored by the Casa de America Latina. Whilst still a student he performed in the Zenith in Paris fronting a Pat Metheny concert, which inspired him to incorporate jazz into his repertoire.
Eight years teaching and performing in Southern Africa followed. Returning to Europe in 1999, Ricardo settled in Barcelona and continues to travel mainly between Spain, France and Scotland to perform, although he has also performed in Canada, Asia, the United States, France, Spain, the UK and Ireland in recent years. Ricardo has performed in the Edinburgh Festival for six years running and toured to Montreal and Vancouver in 2005. 2006 saw him performing on four continents, travelling most of the year. From Cambodia to Canada, Brighton to Bangkok, Montreal, Paris, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Washington, several Scottish dates and Cape Town, South Africa.
Ricardo played a residency in New Jersey in May 2006 at The State Theatre, New Brunswick and he has expanded his links with the USA during this year, playing six shows in San Francisco in September and a series of private evenings in Washington in November, 2006. It's been a year of sell out shows and five star reviews. He has played in schools, prisons, hospitals, community centres, performed in the Edinburgh Fringe opening party, "Lunch with the Hamiltons", participated on the CD "Set Luna" by Julia Sarr and Pat Larose with Mino Cinelu ( Ricardo says, "A dream come true!"). On the same CD as Youssou N' Dour, Jean Philippe Rykiel, Tafa Cissé and Laiti Mbaye - the launch was in Paris in November 2005. Outreach for the Edinburgh Fringe 2006, guitar masterclasses and childrens' workshops in Cambodia.
Already for next year there are plans for more time in Montreal, Washington, Vancouver, Assembly Rooms in the Edinburgh Fringe. Orlando in May. Further shows in Cape Town, in Cambodia, in Bangkok.... Caffè Nero has sponsored Ricardo since November 2004 in various ways and play his music regularly in over 200 cafés nationwide. He was featured artist in August for the second time. The third CD "Flamenco con Fusion" has just been released with an official launch series of shows planned for early 2007.
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Name:
| Kathleen Mary Garner
| Skills:
| Singer, Soloist (Opera and choral singer)
| Phone:
| +44 (0)7787 526240
| Address:
| 37 Woodleigh Gardens, London SW16 2SX, United Kingdom
| Links:
|
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| Kathleen Garner studied at Oxford University, then won a Bodyform Careers Award to study on the ENO ‘Knack’ after which she studied opera performance at Birkbeck College. She continued postgraduate vocal studies with Wendy Eathorne and Robert Aldwinckle at Trinity College of Music. Kathleen was one of the singers on the prestigious Oxford Lieder Festival Mastercourse 2008, with Sarah Walker and Julius Drake. Kathleen has sung all over the UK with the Red Baroque chamber ensemble and with the Euphony trio, and as a soloist, in venues including the Holywell Rooms Oxford, Keble College Chapel, Oxford Playhouse, Edinburgh Playhouse, Corn Exchange Newbury, Grantham Guildhall, Waltham Abbey and Leighton House. She has also performed at the Bloomsbury, Hungerford and Hackwood Festivals. She performed with the Corkery Consort at the 2008 Inchigeela Festival in Ireland. Recent engagements also include Verdi and Mozart Requiems and recitals at St John’s Bethnal Green and Dartford Church. In 2008 she won the Opera, Oratorio and Song Recital Prizes in the Stratford & East London Festival, and together with Helen Lowe, she won the bronze medal in the North London Festival’s Premier Challenge class. Kathleen represented Trinity in the Sir Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize and AESS Patricia Routledge English Song competitions. She was a semi- finalist in this year’s Stuart Burrows International Vocal Awards and the Llangollen Eisteddfod. Kathleen has performed with opera companies including Blackheath Halls Opera Project, Greenwich Park Opera, New Youth Opera, Hungerford Festival Opera, Porcupine Productions, Hampstead Garden Opera,Opera Moriarty, Opera Integra, Harrow Opera, Kennet Opera, London Opera Vocal. Operatic roles include Laila (Les Pecheurs de Perles), Frasquita (Carmen), Belinda, Aeneas, 1st Witch (Dido & Aeneas), Giannetta (L’Elisir d’Amore), 1st Lady, 2nd Boy (Die Zauberflote), 3rd Bridesmaid (Der Freischutz), Lonely Heart (Shawna & Ron’s Half Moon), Diana (Orphee aux Enfers), Lover (Il Tabarro), Cis (Albert Herring), Suor Genovieffa, Suor Osmina (Suor Angelica), Sister 1 (Cinderella: an original opera), Phyllis (Iolanthe), Katisha (Mikado), Bridesmaid (Trial by Jury) and 3rd Wild Goose (Paul Bunyan). She represented Trinity in David Owen Norris’ 2007 Elgar Masterclass.
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Name:
| Juan Gaspar
| Skills:
| Composer, Player, Soloist, Teacher (Guitarist)
| Phone:
| (222) 232 4202
| Address:
| 15 sur 1103-8 Col. Santiago, Puebla, Pue., Mexico
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| Classical guitarist;concert performer, composer and teacher at the Puebla Conservatory.
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Name:
| Lynn Gaubatz
| Skills:
| Player, Soloist, Teacher (bassoon - chamber musician)
| Phone:
| +1 703 207 9450
| Address:
| 7609 2920 Pine Spring Rd, Falls Church, Virginia 22042, United States
| Links:
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| Lynn Gaubatz, hailed internationally as one of the world's finest bassoonists, has wowed audiences on four continents - North and South America, Europe, and Africa - including performances in Salzburg, Seville, Málaga, Caracas, Chicago, Washington, and Boston. She was the first bassoonist to perform a solo recital in the Concert Hall of the Kennedy Center, and has been featured there as soloist five times. She is also the only bassoon soloist ever featured at the Smithsonian Institution's "Art of the Virtuosi" and "The Concert Experience".
Miss Gaubatz was the Bassoon Professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria for two years, and in December 1997 she was a featured soloist at Schloss Leopoldskron for the Salzburg Seminar on "Music for a New Millennium: The Classical Genre in Contemporary Society". Miss Gaubatz has been named "One of America's Ten Most Outstanding Young Working Women" by GLAMOUR Magazine, and was awarded the Leonard Bernstein Fellowship to Tanglewood and the Henry Cabot Award for Musicianship given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She has won the National Young Artists Competition, the Lara Hoggard Performance Award for Young Artists, and competitions at the Aspen Music Festival, Boston University, and Northwestern University.
Her critically-acclaimed performances of Mozart's "Bassoon Concerto" have been broadcast on three continents by PBS, Radio Nacional de España, and Radio Nacional de Venezuela, and she appeared on CBS This Morning. During of her tours of Spain and Africa, she was featured on Radio Nacional de España, and was the first bassoonist to have the Voice of America broadcast a recital worldwide. She has performed at music festivals around the world, including Tanglewood, Aspen, and Wolf Trap, where she played the bassoon on stage in costume in Mozart's "Don Giovanni".
Miss Gaubatz has been principal bassoonist under Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Georg Solti, and others with orchestras in Austria, Germany, Spain, Venezuela, and the US. In 1986, fellow soloist Barry Tuckwell invited her to be Principal Bassoonist in his Maryland Symphony Orchestra, a position she held until 1990. She has given master classes in Salzburg, Seville, Málaga, Caracas, Vienna, Boston, Chicago, Washington, Madison, Albuquerque, and Santa Fe, and currently teaches bassoon and chamber music and serves as Chair of the Wind and Brass Department at the Levine School of Music in Washington, DC.
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Name:
| Andrei Gavrilov
| Skills:
| Soloist (Piano)
| Phone:
| +44 1223 312400
| Fax:
| +44 1223 460827
| Address:
| Cambridge Place, Cambridge CB2 1NS, United Kingdom
| Links:
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| Andrei Gavrilov was born in Moscow in 1955. At the age of 18 he won first prize in tne International Tchaikovsky Competition, and in the same year made his international debut, replacing Sviatoslav Richter.
By the age of 25 he had performed with many of the world's major orchestras in all the major cultural centres and he has since performed with the world's leading conductors, including Abbado, Haitink, Muti, Ozawa and Tennstedt.
Recording exclusively for EMI until 1990, Gavrilov won a Gramophone Award in 1979, followed by several other prestigious recording awards. He is featured on Philips Music Group's Great Pianists of the Twentieth Century collection.
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Name:
| Ewa Gawronska
| Skills:
| Player, Soloist, cello
| Phone:
| +48 606680416
| Address:
| Broniewskiego 21/4, Elblag 82-300, Poland
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Name:
| Gediminas Gelgotas
| Skills:
| Composer, Conductor, Soloist
| Phone:
| +37068018019
| Address:
| S.Skapo str. 3-6, Vilnius LT-01122, Lithuania
| Links:
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| The musical activity of GEDIMINAS GELGOTAS is of extreme range. It includes the studies of composition, piano, vocal singing and conducting at Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy, frequent concerts of his works, improvisational music and piano performances, choir mastering, singing and conducting in several Lithuanian collectives.
GEDIMINAS GELGOTAS' active and wide-ranging musical life is a proof of striving to experience and live through the existence of music in different forms, situations and roles, it is a source of an unfading enthusiasm, endless energy and joy of life.
GEDIMINAS' character coincides with his musical characteristics. As it is in life, his works and art of performance are characterized by expression, suggestion, wide amplitude of emotions ranging from gentle and subtle performance to sultry fiendish elements.
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Name:
| GéNIA
| Skills:
| Soloist,Teacher (Premiér Prix GSMD, LGSM, DipGSM, MMus, Dip TCM)
| Phone:
| +44 (0)20 8451 0001
| Fax:
| +44 (0)20 8451 0001
| Address:
| 33B Chatsworth Road, London NW2 4BL, United Kingdom
| Links:
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| A virtuoso pianist, Evgenia Chudinovich has changed her original name to the stage name GéNIA in 2000. She has a highly eclectic repertoire, embracing both mainstream classics, new music and multimedia projects. Her approach is to innovate and startle. She believes in the syncretism of arts and brings visuals and staging into her live performances. GéNIA was described by The Times as "..an outstanding musician. She knows how to communicate with her audience, and has the virtuosity of not just fingers but hands and arms that marks her out as a natural pianist." (8 January 1998)
Her studies began with her great grandmother, outstanding Ukrainian teacher Regina Horowitz, the sister of Vladimir Horowitz, in her native Ukraine at the age of four. She continued at the School for Gifted Children, made her television debut on Ukrainian TV and broadcast several times on Ukrainian radio. Later she continued her education with Sergei Yushkevitch in Ukraine. Since 1994 GéNIA has lived in London where she has won scholarships to the Guildhall and Trinity Colleges of Music as well as receiving numerous awards from musicians trusts such as the Myra Hess, Craxton and Leche Trusts. Recently she has been awarded a Silver Medal from the Worshipful Company of Musicians. She holds six instrumental diplomas, including the highly prized Premier Prix from the Guildhall School and a Masters Degree with Distinction in Modern Music from Trinity College, where she studied with Douglas Finch.
In 1997 GéNIA was awarded a debut recital at the South Bank Centre, London, from the Park Lane Group as an outstanding young artist. She received glowing reviews from the national press, and in the two years since has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in the UK (London : Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room at the South Bank Centre, Barbican Centre, St. Martin-in-The-Fields, St. John's Smith Square; Oxford, Cambridge, Brighton), Germany (Hamburg, Munich and Schloss Elmaur), France (Paris), USA (Northridge, California) , Cyprus (Nicosia, Larnaka, Paphos and Lemesos) and Ukraine. Also she took part as a soloist at numerous international festivals; amongst them are the Windsor Festival, the Finnish Art Festival "Valo" at the Barbican Centre and Brighton Festival.
GéNIA gave a number of UK Premieres as well as world premiere recordings. Her latest recording `GéNIA:UNVEILED' was released on the Black Box Label and prompted rave reviews in Holland, USA and the national press. It was described by the Gramophone magazine as 'An engaging ..... selection of music by Russian Woman composers given high - impact performances by this charismatic pianist.' Devoting herself entirely to the 20th century -contemporary music she is currently collaborating with photographer Cindie Raven. In September 2000 she founded her own company GéNIA MUSIC where she also has her teaching academy. GéNIA regularly gives masterclasses at the Trinity College of Music in London. In July 2001 she was invited as a guest artist at the Dartington International Summer School to perform and teach.
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Name:
| Serg van Gennip
| Skills:
| Soloist (Young Dutch Pinanist)
| Fax:
| +31 15 2570315
| Address:
| Delft, Netherlands
| Links:
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| SERG VAN GENNIP was born as Sergei Dianov in Kazan, Russia, in 1985. Serg lived in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) until the age of five. At this age, he left the Soviet Union and lived in Germany for three years. Afterward he moved to Delft in The Netherlands. Since his very early childhood, Serg has liked listening to operas, visiting ballet performances and concerts of classical music. Serg began to study piano at the age of nine. His first teacher was his mother Olga Dianova. She prepared him for the conservatory. He passed an exam at the Conservatory in the Hague when he was eleven years old, where he studied with Kamilla Bystrova for five years. Now, he studies at the piano-class of pianist Michael Davidson at the Rotterdam Conservatory.
At the age of thirteen, Serg won the televised competition for young talents, named Solo for a Child, after which he became quite well-known in the Netherlands. But this was more of a show for Serg, because he does not support any sort of competitions. His opinion is that music cannot be seen as a ``sport''. His first solo recital took place in a large hall in the city of the Hague, when he was fourteen. At the age of sixteen, he had his first orchestral concert with the State Orchestra of Tatarstan (La Primavera) in Kazan.
Influences that had an impact on his musical life are especially three major pianists of the 20th century, Sergei Rachmaninov, Vladimir Horowitz and Sviatoslav Richter. Most important influences for Serg were, without a doubt, all the great composers with various styles.
Serg van Gennip also has a hobby: painting different landscapes. This is probably related to his musical talent, because ideas for these paintings were born while playing many beautifully colored musical pieces. Besides a large number of pieces, many of his paintings are also to be found on his internet site: http://www.serg.vangennip.com .
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Name:
| Cristian Gentilini
| Skills:
| Composer, Conductor
| Address:
| Grizzana Morandi 40030, Italy
| Links:
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| Born in Vergato (Bo), he earned a degree in classic guitar at the Conservatory of Music “G. B. Martini” of Bologna, under the guide of M° Eugenio Becherucci. He specialized with professors A. Ponce, A. Diaz and O. Ghiglia. At the same institution G.B. Martini he took the degree in choral music and choir conduction (M° Pier Paolo Scattolin) and the degree in composition (M° Francesco Carluccio). He attended master classes of choir conductions (G. Graden, L. Larsen, G. Grun and F. Heyerick).
He performs both as a choir conductor and as a guitar player. In october 2003 he was among the 12 final contestants at the International Competition “Mariele Ventre” for choir conduction. Since 2003, in addition to performing, he is a teacher of musical education in middle school. Founder and director of the vocal ensemble “Ars Cantus” (Bologna), he awarded the 1st Absolute Prize at the 3rd National Contest “Riviera Etrusca”.
He awarded also many Prizes as composer in National and International Contests: 2nd prize at the National Competition of composition “Mozart oggi” 2006; 1st prize at the National Competition of choir composition “Simone Gentile” 2006; 2nd prize at the Internationational Competition of choir composition organized by FTSC (Lugano, 2007); 3th prize at III International Composers Competition “Musica Sacra” – (Cambridge, 2007).
He is the conductor of the Choir “A.N.A.” of Vergato and of the “Corale Polifonica S. Rita” of Bologna. Since 2005 he is founder and co-director of the Chamber Choir “Eclectica”, specialized in the contemporary choral repertoire.
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| Karine Georgian
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| Soloist, Teacher (Cellist)
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